Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey councils million pound plus disappearing trick
Apparently Haringey council have blown ALOT of this money before they built anything (from this fund below) and can’t really build much now …
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/regeneration/wood-green/adaptive-wood-g...
Where did it go? Four public consultations later …
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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"I swear they just draw up inspirational plans (of things they won’t really do) just before an election and then bin the day they win."
To "swear" you believe something is so, doesn't thereby make it so.
The next London Borough elections are in 2026. I doubt Haringey councillors or staff are planning that far forward. Even if they had the wish, or time, or funds to "draw up inspirational plans" right now.
You tell us that you and some twenty-eight other people went to the four consultation events. What was your own proposal? Did you write something? Or make a drawing? Or maybe took along some photos of projects you've seen elsewhere which you thought Haringey might adopt? Did you scribble your ideas on post-it notes?
Or, very reasonably, did you simply describe some of your own practical ideas/amendments of proposals, to one of the staff who then wrote this down?
Once or twice I took part in a small scale charrette-style event. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette) It collected up and produced a list of some interesting ideas from the residents who participated.
I'd be interested to learn your personal proposals for spending the cash available.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I did one of those events back when I managed Highgate Road estate in Kentish Town in the eighties. We set up a big tent and spent the whole weekend there with tenants planning what environmental improvements they wanted for the estate with a sum of money I’d bid for. I think it was called Planning for Real back then - I had no idea I was doing a Charrette!
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Michael, I claim no expertise on Charrettes. It's a framework and a set of creative tools and processes that I've read about. And in which I've seen strong similarities to my own research experience and reading, on and with, collaborative and collective work teams.
I met Tony Gibson the founder of Planning for Real and tried to learn from him and his published work. My wife (Zena Brabazon) once involved him in a Planning for Real Design Competition at the south eastern corner of Finsbury Park.
My impression of Gibsons's Planning for Real methods was that their most prominent feature was to work "bottom-up". To the extent that residents CAME FIRST. Whereas in the charrettes residents were valued and respected partners. But the planners and designers, and architects and artists still had the major input.
This and similar videos may give a flavour.
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Why not email and ask the Parks staff about future plans for planting there? Or if you've done that, what was their reply?
As I'm sure you know, bearing in mind that perhaps not everyone favours bushes and hedges shielding parkland. (Sadly, for our own nearest park that has included for safety reasons.)
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth M on
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speaking of scary tunnels - shame they still cant make the tunnel under the railway bridge at Finsbury Park next to the station bearable or even properly lit.
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It’s dreadful but isn’t it in Islington?
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The Finsbury Park side of Stroud Green Road is in Haringey I'm pretty sure. Both sides of the tunnel are equally grim.
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Elizabeth, for many years I've used Fix My Street free website. Click the map ' describe and send. Add photos if you want.
https://www.fixmystreet.com/around?lat=51.56463&lon=-0.10582&am...
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